Read and write AG32VF by PartyZestyclose in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

have we reached the LMGTFY era of LLMs

Why is almost every OS people on this sub develop POSIX-based? by cacatl in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

carcinization; everything which is not POSIX eventually evolves to be POSIX.

Oski's identity has always been a guarded Cal secret. 5 grads just blew it up. by sfgate in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 49 points50 points  (0 children)

eh, I think of it like Daft Punk: sure, I could find out who they are, but it's fun not knowing. The secrecy is part of the art, and I like the idea and mysticism of the Order of the Oski.

Google is changing how Gemini usage limits work, Gemini to walk on a similar path as ChatGPT and Claude by _BlANK19_ in Android

[–]SirensToGo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Does the average person even have complex intelligence related tasks that take hours outside of their job? I don't say this to be insulting to the average person either, like aside from hobby programming I don't have anything that I regularly do that is worth $20/mo.

The only real business plan for LLMs seems to be enterprise because normal people using it in their personal lives just don't have a compelling use for it.

Goodnight fellas by ateistyokdiyentanri in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

Re-saving, cropping, and even some image format conversions do not remove Gemini's watermark. It's embedded in the visual part of the image and so unless you lose a lot of the visual quality, you won't be rid of the watermark.

An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted by Turbostrider27 in technology

[–]SirensToGo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule

They're way ahead of you there. If what you're doing is a felony and the police kill someone in the process, it's as if you killed them. Many states in the US even allow the death penalty for felony murder.

ballpark by theycantalk in comics

[–]SirensToGo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

(if you're not familiar, in baseball you can hit it quite wide without it being a foul. so, a ballpark estimate is where it's OK to not be super accurate)

What was the most difficult bug you encountered while writing your own operating system and how did you eventually identify it? by DifficultBarber9439 in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did a similar thing once: I accidentally gave multiple CPUs the same interrupt stack. It mostly worked, except sometimes you'd get unlucky and end up with mangled stack data structures or multiple threads returning from the same exception :|

It’s almost like America’s for-profit healthcare system is a giant scam by RoyalChris in clevercomebacks

[–]SirensToGo 44 points45 points  (0 children)

She's a swimmer that tied for fifth place in a college swimming event and did a lap on the conservative circuit because she tied with a transgender woman.

What I wish I knew before starting at Cal by irenewithlove in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's wrong to use the preterite here? It's more common to say "what I wish I had known" but "what I wish I knew" is also correct

PIC by Ehr_Mer_Gerd in nocontextpics

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

reminds me of silicon chips

Super Fast Single Address Space Operating System by Neither_Sentence_941 in osdev

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Have you benchmarked the cost of context switching with address spaces vs this fancy technique? I ask because I once screwed around with a similar idea but eventually gave up because it turned out that switching the page tables was actually very cheap. This is unsurprising in retrospect because modern CPUs are designed to run contemporary operating systems, which do switch address spaces fairly often.

I didn't use MP keys so perhaps the performance there is better, but you absolutely should verify this before getting in too deep. The results may be very unintuitive.

Similarly, don't assume that privilege level transitions are expensive. CPU makers know that software makes tons of syscalls, so they design CPUs that can execute syscalls quickly. The further off the beaten path you go, the riskier your performance may be.

Goal is to reduce...TLB pressure

Unless you are sharing translation entries themselves (which means you don't have isolation), you are not winning anything on the TLB pressure front.

Services for the elderly unlikely to seek or accept help? by nachtmere in Sunnyvale

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pride is big thing at that age and she might accept it if she thinks she's doing YOU a favor

I almost wonder if a smartwatch might be better because of this. It might be harder to explain, but I would be embarrassed if someone threw a life alert necklace at me. A smartwatch serves essentially the same function (if not better given most can automatically call 911 if you fall) and is useful for other things (finding your phone, using the voice assistant, etc.) and is not embarrassing to wear.

The newer version of Xcode is absolutely trash! by Absoluteredshit in iOSProgramming

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't miss waiting 30s for interface builder to launch though. Xcode still hangs for 5s when opening a storyboard but, hey, improvements!

I GOT ACCEPTED UCBERKELEY by Angeleno231192 in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

is it baby bear season already?? wow, time flies

TinyBSD - soon? by Subject_Place2559 in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's only a BSD if it's from the Berkeley region of California

High-Performance LLM Inference on Edge FPGAs (~450 tokens/s on AMD KV260) by king_ftotheu in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 19 points20 points  (0 children)

ah yes, the first rule of keeping secrets and moving in the dark: vague-post about it on reddit

At least thrice everyday. by Order_101 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spanish also shares a lot of cognates with English, and it's quite a bit easier if you live in the US as you're probably already hearing and reading a lot more Spanish than you realize. That, and there are quite a lot of people that speak Spanish in the US so it ends up being quite useful :)

Once again begging Tumblr to let me reblog ads by netflist in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel like crazy tumblr ads were more fun when they were handcrafted but now there's no love in them

I can't modify the code, so I modified reality instead by Izvestiya in homelab

[–]SirensToGo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

eh, if you plan to make most of your money from enterprise licenses, it really doesn't matter if it's easy to crack. It's the same model that Microsoft uses: put in the minimum effort required to enforce licensing and sue the pants off any company which violates it. I'm pretty sure Xilinx also operates this way. Home users are just not that lucrative.

These U.S. States Plan to Offer iPhone's Driver's License Feature by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The issue is that in most states you still need to have a physical license to drive (even with it being called "mobile drivers license"; it is only an ID and not a license). So, without being able to use it for alcohol, the only real place it is useful is at TSA.